Website Formulas of the Conversion Scientist™ Brian Massey Conversion Sciences, LLC Tweet Something @bmassey Unexpected
Oct 18, 2014
Website Formulasof the Conversion Scientist™
Brian MasseyConversion Sciences, LLC
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Unexpected
Expect the Unexpected
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What You Will Learn
18 concepts that will shake the very foundations of your idea of a website
18 ways to make your website more successful
18 ways to piss off your competitors
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Don’t Think. Know.Training
Conversion Catalyst ConsultingPPC Landing Page Optimization
Video that ConvertsAnalytics
Visitor PersonasFeared by Competitors Across the Internet
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Please Put On Your Safety Goggles
Your opinion doesn’t matter.
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Boosted Sales by 30%
Your visitors don’t care about your company or your products.2
http://www.flickr.com/photos/proimos/
Don’t “We” “We” all over yourself.
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Now through a single, unified user interface, design, order, provision and control cloud services with the ability to modify decisions as
needed to ensure the satisfaction of your IT goals. This is the new IT.
Your visitors will tell you exactly what to do.3
Start Your Conversion Lab
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Conversion is about more than landing pages, buttons, forms, and shopping carts.4
Every click is a promise that you must keep.5
http://www.flickr.com/photos/marksetchell/
Every change is an experiment.6
Every change is an experiment.6
Specifics are the hallmark of conversion.7
24%More leads
Avoid Business Porn.8
Who are we really talking to?
Get Creative with Images
Market research is a collection of hypotheses, not answers.9
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10Don’t send your store-bought traffic to social networks.
11The most important part of a design is the dollars it generates.
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12Store the attention you’ve paid for and use it again and again.
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Customer BatteriesSubscriber BatteriesSocial BatteriesMobile Batteries
13The most valuable use of a blog is as a content source.
Create a Blogcano
14Start at the end when designing your landing pages.
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Enter Your Credit Card Number
Your Name
Your Address
Your Security Code
The Expiration Date
15Sometimes it’s okay—even preferable—if visitors abandon you.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ironrodart/4265327611/sizes/o/in/photostream/
Good Abandon vs. Bad Abandon
Shipping and handling costs were too high.
BAD
Forrester Research, May 2010, Understanding Shopping Cart Abandonment
The shopper wasn’t ready to purchase the product
GOOD
Forrester Research, May 2010, Understanding Shopping Cart Abandonment
The shopper wanted to compare prices on other sites.
GOOD
Forrester Research, May 2010, Understanding Shopping Cart Abandonment
Product price was higher than the shopper was willing to pay.
BAD
Forrester Research, May 2010, Understanding Shopping Cart Abandonment
The shopper just wanted to save products in his cart for later consideration.
GOOD
Forrester Research, May 2010, Understanding Shopping Cart Abandonment
Retargeting and Remarketing
16Email is the biggest social network on the planet—bigger and more effective even than Facebook.
Reply to All
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The job of your home page is to get people off of your home page.
18You will find your own surprises as you continue on this journey.
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